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Dec 12, 2010
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Shinobu Nemoto
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Shinobu Nemoto is a sound-artist from Kanagawa, Japan. You might know "Summons of Shining Ruins", his solo-guitar project or "Dark Side of The Audio System ", a tape-loop-experiment. Under his real name Shinobu Nemoto mainly releases guitar-improvisations and field-recordings. He also runs the label "MOUFU-ROKUON" and did collaborations with Brain Grainger, Jason Adams and Danielle Demos. "Melting Loop Trip" is a collection of sixteen loops, each loop...
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Topics: Shinobu Nemoto, Melting Loop Trip, ambient, loops, experimental
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Mar 1, 2010
03/10
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Johnny Utterback
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Counterspark is the solo project of Johnny Utterback of Richmond, Virginia. A visual artist by trade, Johnny began experimenting in sound in 2006. From that point on, Counterspark has been a project of experimentation in the world electronic music. Rich textures and lush soundscapes with an underlying tone of optimism are all intertwined into the melancholy compositions that are Counterspark. The sounds of The Halpern Experiment were inspired by a "healing sounds" cassette, found in a...
Topics: Counterspark, The Haplern Experiment, Ambient, Experimental
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Dec 4, 2011
12/11
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Saito Koji
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December starts with a new release by Saito Koji. He worked with labels like Kokeshidisk, Somehow Recordings, SEM , taâlem, Magic Book Records, Kesh Recordings and Gears of Sand Recordings. And he already did four previous releases via Resting Bell. His new release "Music" is a 5-track album with a complete duration of 70 minutes. Two 20-minute pieces are framing three 10-minute tracks full of tender and dense drone-music. Matching with the starting winter season in the northern...
Topics: Saito Koji, Music, Ambient, Drone
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Jul 29, 2010
07/10
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Oskar Hallbert
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Oskar Hallbert is a Swedish composer who makes minimal music; tranquil melodies, documentary field recordings and the warm hiss you get from old microphones, casette tapes and an out of date mp3-player. You might know him from his former online releases on Zymogen or Rain Music. He has also released physical albums on small underground lables around the world, most recent on U.K. based Heat death. The EP "doodling" consists of 5 tracks and is 12 minutes and 12 seconds long. All songs...
Topics: Oskar Hallbert, doodling, folk, lo-fi, ambient
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Jun 12, 2009
06/09
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Shinobu Nemoto
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Analog Vibrations. That points into the right direction. Summons of Shining Ruins is a project of Shinobu Nemoto, who works with electric guitar, tape delay, old rhythm machines, stompboxes and 4-track-recorders. No computer or software is used to record this work. And you can hear that in every tone. "BIRD REQUIEM" sounds at the first listen extremly raw. You can not define what you hear in the first moment. But everything sounds a bit haunting, hidden under a layer of dust. But the...
Topics: Summons of Shining Ruins, Shinobu Nemoto, drone, ambient
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Jun 25, 2009
06/09
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Glenn Ryszko
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Last year Glenn Ryszko released his work "4.0 subtle distorted guitar drones" on Resting Bell as well as compilation-tracks for "SOUNDOFSLOWFLOW Vol.1" from Slow Flow Records and "listen" from duckbay. Now he comes up with his second Resting Bell-release called "Machine". "Machine" is a sublime minimal drone work, inspired by abandoned industrial places. Glenn was born in a coal mining area, which was closed down even before he was born....
Topics: Glenn Ryszko, drone, ambient, experimental
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Dec 28, 2012
12/12
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Shinobu Nemoto
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And here is the sibling of Shinobu's former release "Shiho". "Takeshi" was recorded with the same setup as "Shiho", an electric guitar and a feedback device, and also in it's duration it is quite similar, four tracks and about 35 minutes long. Oscillating guitar tones, little shifts in tone an color, enjoy the extended trip into Shinobu's wonderful and exciting soundworld with both releases "Shiho" and "Takeshi". Thanks to Shinobu for this...
Topics: Summons of Shining Ruins, Shinobu Nemoto, drone, ambient
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Mar 12, 2013
03/13
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Saito Koji
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It is Saito Koji-time again. He worked with labels like Kokeshidisk, Somehow Recordings, SEM , taâlem, Magic Book Records, Kesh Recordings, Gears of Sand Recordings, Median Recordings and element perspective. And he already released eight previous releases via Resting Bell. His latest contribution to the Resting Bell-catalog is really huge. It is a five hour work. 16 titles with a duration of 4:33 minutes each and five long forms with 39 minutes to 48 minutes. The sixteen short tracks play...
Topics: Saito Koji, Ambient, Drone
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Aug 31, 2012
08/12
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Darwin Raymond
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Darwin Raymond is primarily a guitar based musician currently residing in Columbus, Ohio. He has also released an EP on Audio Gourmet (Rien/Rain) and an album on FeedbackLoop (Night). His new release on Resting Bell is called "Beyond The Shore, The Sea" and it is a wonderful album focusing on the ocean. Nine tracks with a complete duration of about 40 minutes. Darwin has focused on the overlap and interplay of memory with the present, which he explores by recording a base guitar track...
Topics: Darwin Raymond, Ambient, Soundscapes
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Oct 22, 2010
10/10
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Peregrino
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Peregrino is Bernardo Durand's project. He was born in Muñiz, Argentina in 1982, where he teaches literature to young boys. Bernardo started Peregrino in 2007, when he got his accordion. Bernardo also runs the label "Ahora Eterno", best known for releases from Pulmon, Sublamp and himself. "El azul helado del alba" consists of 7 tracks and has a complete duration of 44 minutes, full of warm, athmospheric and organic drone-sounds. All tracks are fitting together very...
Topics: Peregrino, El azul helado del alba, Ambient, Drone, Experimental
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Sep 3, 2009
09/09
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strom noir
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strom noir is a project of Emil Matko, born in 1979 and now living in Bratislava, Slovakia. He is wellknown from his releases on u-cover (ylomejja, kruhyNAvode), ambsine (luvyoo) and format noise (lorawa). "kueyen" brings you six athmospheric ambient-experimental tracks, built mainly with electric and acoustic guitar loops, synth-layers and some well-arranged field-recording elements. Deep, sometimes really dark droning elements, repetitive melodic structures and more abstract...
Topics: strom noir, ambient, experimental
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Oct 25, 2007
10/07
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Sparke / Illidge
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Gardens from Light are an ambient drone duo from the North of England. They formed during 2006 and consist of individuals I. Sparke and S. Illidge. Their release "Birds Of Joy And Sorrow" is a massive work in two pieces. Both together two hours long. They create 12 conceptual pieces around figures from the russian and east european mythology, 12 deep and dark sonic landscapes of drones, walls of strings and field recordings. In the russian legend a "Sirin" is a bird with the...
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Topics: Gardens From Light, Ambient, Drone
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Mar 26, 2010
03/10
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Damian Valles
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Resting Bell is very happy to welcome Damian Valles. Damian is a Canadian multi-instrumentalist who creates ambient/experimental works based mainly on solo guitar. He utilizes a wide range of sources to expand his sound which include a variety of percussive elements, piano, and field recordings. Past releases include a full length on the excellent Under The Spire imprint, and a 3" EP on Standard Form. The latter being the first in a series of limited 3" releases called "Rural...
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Topics: Damian Valles, ambient, drone, field-recording
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Dec 31, 2010
12/10
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Oak Thielbar
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Oak Thielbar has been writing music under the name of Saffron Slumber since 2004. Originally started as a project to explore ideas in ambient music, the project has continued to evolve over its lifespan to include aspects of noise, drone, and other forms of experimental composition. Former releases could be found on Pocket Change Records, Skrow!Media, Zenapolae, Luxus-Arctica Records International, and Circlesandlines Recordings. "Somnogen" consists of 6 tracks and has a complete...
Topics: Saffron Slumber, Somnogen, Ambient, Experimental, Drone
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May 18, 2010
05/10
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Off Land
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Similar to my previous release, Commute, which was an exercise in revisiting a past experience, the Anniversary ep is an exercise in revisiting a moment of time. Parts of my wedding were documented with field recordings. This included pre-ceremony unpacking / chatter / music, post-ceremony celebration / music, and a hike up a mountain. This material became the album's skeleton. The guitar and French Horn were exstracted from the original field recordings. I decided to honor the original rural...
Topics: Off Land, Commute, Ambient, Minimal, Experimental
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Jan 1, 2009
01/09
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Sergey Suokas
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After the powerful and emotive "Love"-EP on Autoplate, "room phive" is the third release by Russian composer Sergey Suokas. Sergey makes music since '99. And besides of his techno-project "Suokas", Sergey releases soulful and hypnotic ambient-music under the moniker "slow". "room phive" is a 4-track-EP filled with friendly and deep collage-electronica composed with samples taken from nature and sounds recorded at the studio. The result are four...
Topics: slow, Sergey Suokas, Ambient, Electronica
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Jul 30, 2012
07/12
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Lou DiBenedetto & Joe LiTrenta
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Welcome back, Bengalfuel. Lou DiBenedetto & Joe LiTrenta began making music together around the end of 2009 and have released music on various labels such as Hibernate Recordings, Rural Colours, Lizard Breakfast and Twice Removed. After their contribution to the RB100-series with "Kokolias" Bengalfuel are doing their next release on Resting Bell. "Neely" is meant to be a continuation of "Kokolias". Taking the general feeling and transferring it to a deeper and...
Topics: Bengalfuel, Neely, Ambient, Drone, Electronic
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Oct 25, 2007
10/07
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Sparke / Illidge
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Gardens from Light are an ambient drone duo from the North of England. They formed during 2006 and consist of individuals I. Sparke and S. Illidge. Their release "Birds Of Joy And Sorrow" is a massive work in two pieces. Both together two hours long. They create 12 conceptual pieces around figures from the russian and east european mythology, 12 deep and dark sonic landscapes of drones, walls of strings and field recordings. In the russian legend a "Sirin" is a bird with the...
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Topics: Gardens From Light, Ambient, Drone
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2.0K
Nov 20, 2008
11/08
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Off Land
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With "Grey Surfaces" Tim Dwyer, the person behind Off Land, is back on Resting Bell with another beautiful release. The release contains five new compositions by Off Land and two remixes, done by Placement and Ennio Mazzon. Compared to his last release "Encounter Point" "Grey Surfaces" is much more reduced, compact and monolithic. Each track has a kind of deep fundamental droning with field-recording fragments, shifting melodies and glitches in addtion to it all....
Topics: Off Land, Grey Surfaces, Ambient, Minimal, Experimental
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Sep 15, 2011
09/11
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Lou DiBenedetto & Joe LiTrenta
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Resting Bell celebrates the 100th release with a small release-series, consisting of 4 parts. The second part is done by Bengalfuel. Lou DiBenedetto & Joe LiTrenta began making music together around the end of 2009 and have released music on various labels such as Hibernate Recordings, Rural Colours, Lizard Breakfast and Isolationism. Bengalfuel's music is their gift to the ghosts so they will have some peaceful music to listen to. And their new work "Kokolias" is working...
Topics: Bengalfuel, Kokolias, Ambient, Drone, Electronic
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Mar 12, 2010
03/10
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HKM+/diatribes/Piero SK/Rehnig/Sienknecht
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For a long time in my life I've had really problems to listen to jazz music, especially the very free, improvised forms. That changed when I discovered the Insubordinations netlabel from Switzerland, where you can find extra-ordinary releases on exactly this field. And of course my musical taste also changed in that period, so that all comes together. Now I'm really happy to present you a very, very fine piece of improvised music, made by HKM+ and diatribes together with Piero SK, Robert Rehnig...
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Jun 30, 2012
06/12
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Saito Koji
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As well as last December we complete June 2012 with another Saito Koji-release. "Sleepy" is a single, one hour long track. His last releases "Guide" and "Again" based on the limited time-frame of three minutes and presented drone and ambient soundscapes in a really focused and condensed version. Listening to a one hour piece is the complete counterpart. The sounds within this track have the chance to evolve with every listen. Based on a simple looping guitar...
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Topics: Saito Koji, Music, Ambient, Drone
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Aug 27, 2010
08/10
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Guanxi
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The Guanxi pseudonym is orchestraed towards 'a sui generi sound' through research, investigation and with a hunger to explore a constructed visual and non-subjective disposition. "Graveyard Shift" contains 5 pieces of complex and playful sounds from guitar, piano, bells, strings, flute, vocals, field recordings and electronics. Some of the pieces have a noisy and harsh character of a musical sketches, others operate with droning elements and a more calm ambience. And some combine both...
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Topics: Guanxi, Graveyard Shift, ambient, experimental
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IJO is audrius vaitiekunas from klaipeda, lithuania. IJO is most well known for his energetic, drill and bass music that fuses together pop aesthetics, avant-garde noise with jazz-inspired, lyrical synth melodies. But that is only one side of the story. IJO also produces beautiful and inspiring ambient music. On his EP "The White Out" you will find 5 tracks, all rather short, between three and five minutes. All together about 20 minutes, but beautifully involving and with a very...
Topics: IJO, ambient, electronica
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Sep 24, 2010
09/10
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The Inventors of Aircraft
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Many of you will remember the first Inventors of Aircraft-release on Serein called "Unknown Language" back two years ago. Now I have the pleasure to welcome TIOA on Resting Bell with a wonderful new work, mastered by Ian Hawgood. "As it is" has an enormous warm and dense sound. You'll find some elements you know from "Unknown Language" like the repetitive melodic motifs over the foundation of droning, growling sounds. But for me "As it is" also sounds...
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Topics: The Inventors of Aircraft, As it is, Ambient, Experimental
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Feb 25, 2011
02/11
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Harry Towell
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The sound-art of Spheruleus is produced by British artist Harry Towell with a previous discography including releases on the likes of Under The Spire, Earth Mantra and Test Tube as well as his own label Audio Gourmet. Intrigued by all things old and rustic, his music is often inspired by the rural Lincolnshire surroundings in which he lives and his first outing of 2011, here on Resting Bell, is intended to really captured this. A short collection of deliberately loose and degraded instrument...
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Topics: Ambient, Electro-Acoustic, Drone, Field Recordings
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Jun 24, 2011
06/11
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Saito Koji
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I think Saito Koji needs only little introduction. Besides his three former Resting Bell-releases, he released his work on labels like Kokeshidisk, Somehow Recordings, SEM , taâlem, Magic Book Records, Kesh Recordings and Gears of Sand Recordings. His new Resting Bell-release "Luck" consists of three tracks with a total duration of 48 minutes. The first track "Old Tape Magic" starts off with a beautiful 20-minute long drone. Beautiful, bright and shimmering. The short...
Topics: Saito Koji, Luck, Drone, Minimal, Ambient
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Feb 6, 2012
02/12
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Shinobu Nemoto
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Resting Bell starts 2012 with a new release by Summons of Shining Ruins. Most of you know this project by Shinobu Nemoto. He released his work on labels like Install, Experimedia, Dead Pilot Records, Analogpath, Against It Records or on his own imprint Moufu - Rokuon. With "On The Beach" Shinobu gives us five abyssal tracks, each over 10 minutes long. You can hear deep growling guitar melodies, nearly pushed into the background. And there is a constant hiss and noise layer which gives...
Topics: Summons of Shining Ruins, Shinobu Nemoto, drone, ambient
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Dec 3, 2012
12/12
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Shinobu Nemoto
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2012 will end the same way the year has begun: With a release by Summons of Shining Ruins. And it will be a double release. The first part is "Shiho". Most of you know this project by Shinobu Nemoto. He released his work on labels like Install, Experimedia, Dead Pilot Records, Analogpath, Against It Records or on his own imprint Moufu – Rokuon. "Shiho" is a four track work with a total duration of 36 minutes. Shinobu only works with an electric guitar and a feedback...
Topics: Summons of Shining Ruins, Shinobu Nemoto, drone, ambient
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Jan 24, 2008
01/08
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ryonkt
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ryonkt is Ryo Nakata, well-known for his great releases on Dog Eared Netlabel, Noise Joy and Mandorla. Equipped with guitar and notebook, Ryo creates dreamy and relaxed music between minimal folk and ambient. "the world that was surrounded by a deep forest and warm light" is a peaceful and easeful place. It is a kind of arcane space in everday life, but easy to find with a bit of relaxing. Listen to the repetitive guitar chords, slightly moving in each passage. The fragile melodies,...
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Topics: ryonkt, ambient, minimal folk
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Nov 27, 2007
11/07
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Ian D Hawgood
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"I close my eyes, earmuffs blocking out the city noise. I have known sadness and I have known hate. I have stared at the darkness and it has just stared right back, knowing a compatriot. I close my eyes a little tighter and start feeling my way blindly back." Ian D Hawgood Compared with it's predecessor "The Fire Will Die At Night" Ian's new EP comes with a lighter, less dense atmosphere. Soft piano-spots, little melodies from far away and sometimes slightly moving beats...
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Topics: Ian D Hawgood, Ambient, Electronica
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Feb 12, 2010
02/10
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derrick hart
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Derrick Hart is an American musician. You might know him from his "Songs From A Cross (The Sea)" EP on 12rec, a release in which Derrick shows great musical talent and a really fantastic sense for song-writing and melodies. With his "fall asleep to this" EP he goes a more experimental and meditative way. The five tracks are mainly based on vocals, even though there are no actual lyrics. "kontakt" and "when someone loves you no more" are performed only...
Topics: derrick hart, ambient, experimental, electronica
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Apr 23, 2009
04/09
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Phillip Wilkerson
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Phillip Wilkerson began creating ambient music in 2005. His work ranges from warm, peaceful ambience to the more abstract and experimental forms of electronic music, combining guitar, field recordings, synthesizers and generative software. You may know him from various releases on bypass, timetheory, Earth Mantra or Clinical Archives. "Midland" is a 5-track-EP with a complete duration of about 27 minutes. Part I - IV are very homogeneous. A warm and continuous background-drone,...
Topics: Phillip Wilkerson, Midland, ambient, drone, electronic
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Jul 2, 2009
07/09
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Off Land
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Let's go back to 2006. I used to hate my job, the dead-end brainless work. Even more, I used to hate my commute. An hour by subway what would take 20 minutes by car if I had owned one. Everyday I walked to the subway, switching lines in town and took a 2nd line to the end. I dreamed that one day the subway would take me past the last stop, just keep going. Or maybe I would end up somewhere else, somewhere new. Music was my salvation, my soundtrack, those two hours each day. With or without...
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Topics: Off Land, Commute, Ambient, Minimal, Experimental
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Nov 27, 2010
11/10
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Christopher McFall
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Christopher McFall is a well-known name in the experimental music scene, not only because of his CD-releases for Entr'acte, Mystery Sea, Sourdine, 1000füssler, Gears Of Sand, Moving Furniture Records and Unfathomless, but he's also composed a multitude of netaudio-releases on Test Tube, Earlabs, Clinical Archives, Alg-a, CONV and Impulsive Habitat. What an impressive list of work. His new release on Resting Bell is a lovely EP called "A Long Time Running for The Suicide Strays". It...
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Topics: Christopher McFall, Ambient, Experimental, Soundscapes
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Feb 29, 2008
02/08
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The Love Songs
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The Love Songs is the amazing one man arkestra Sven Swift. Swift lives in the North of Germany, runs the CDR- and Netlabel 12rec.net and writes reviews about free music at Phlow Magazine and his own blog RUBored.org. In June 2007, Sven performed a 25-minutes live-set at the DIY 2.0 festival in Dresden. The whole set consists of one well-structured, tension-filled piece of drone music, created with analogue synthesizers and effect-feedback only (an exception is the little nightingale-chant...
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Topics: The Love Songs, Live, Dresden, Drone, Ambient, Experimental
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Jan 10, 2008
01/08
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James McDougall
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"entia non" is the project moniker of Australian artist James McDougall. After great releases at u-cover (zero comma zero, inter alia) and test tube (distal) he comes up with his first release "sub routine" on Resting Bell. The four tracks, deeply affected by the Australian landscape (South East Queensland), are very subtle, just like putting your ears on the ground of an animated, busy grassland. Little glitches grawling around like insects, soft wind flurries playing in...
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Topics: entia non, ambient, experimental, field recordings
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Sep 10, 2009
09/09
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Ennio Mazzon
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Ennio Mazzon is an Italian sound artist. I first heard of him as a remixer of Off Land's "Input Shape". But he did netaudio-releases on Audiotalaia and Timetheory and a CDr-release on his own imprint "Ripples Recordings", as well as various sampler-contributions. "The Possibility Of Joy" contains 4 tracks with a complete duration of about 22 minutes. Most of the material seems to be generated with synthesizers and electronical equipment with a little addition of...
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Topics: Ennio Mazzon, ambient, experimental
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Sep 4, 2008
09/08
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d'incise
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d'incise is wellknown by his releases on Zymogen, Test Tube or IOD. He is member of the Audioactivity music & visual collective founded in 2000 in Geneva (CH), releases electronica, electro-acoustic, experimental music solo or with various partners. And he also pratices free improvisation with the Diatribes-project and runs the Insubordinations netlabel, dedicate to improvised music. His release "Stase / Contre Stase" contains two pieces of live-recordings. "Stase",...
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Topics: d'incise, electronica, electroacoustic, experimental
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May 21, 2009
05/09
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sylvie walder & entia non
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Sylvie Walder and entia non (James McDougall) are well-known names in the netlabel-world and beyond. Sylvie Walder released collaboration-albums with Phillip Wilkerson, Siegmar Fricke, and "_" (as Kakitsubata). entia non has released solo-works on test tube, IOD, u-cover, Resting Bell and contributions on compilations for duckbay and Slow Flow Recs. On "bewilderment" Sylvie and James create a rich and deep organic sound-cosmos. Droning background-layers, instrumental...
Topics: sylvie walder, entia non, piano, ambient, experimental
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Feb 26, 2009
02/09
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Saito Koji
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Saito Koji is a musician from Japan, who creates wonderful minimal drone-music with guitar, keyboards, field recordings and some effects. He is known for his releases on Magic Book Records, Kesh Recordings and Gears of Sand Recordings. "Time / Line" contains the two pieces "Time" and "Line", with a duration of 33 minutes each. "Time" is drone in the best way. You feel like standing in a field of clouds or wrappped in a warm blanket while listening to...
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Topics: Saito Koji, Time, Line, Drone, Minimal, Ambient
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Jan 21, 2010
01/10
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Alexis Béchu
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Lexithimie is a sound solo project founded by Alexis Béchu with focus on healing sound, extended classic, modern ambient and with care for minimal details and natural color. After a bunch of releases on various audio labels such as ropes swing cities, October Man, Hibernate recs and Under The Spire lexithimie’s music creates synthetic spaces from processed instruments, field recordings, layers of repetitive tones and sound infusion. His two-track EP "Leontopodium" is a beautiful...
Topics: Lexithimie, Leontopodium, ambient, soundscape
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Sep 24, 2008
09/08
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Julien Skrobek
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Julien Skrobek was born in Paris. As a teacher, he naturally became interested in the process of memorization and his work revolves around the relation between music, silence and memory. The main question it asks is: If I hear a note of music, when do I need to hear the next one in order to be able to build upon its trace? "Pays Natal" works with that question over a duration of 35 minutes. It’s a meditative experience and a test for listening habits. You hear short drones, little...
Topics: Julien Skrobek, Pays Natal, Experimental, Minimal
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Oct 9, 2009
10/09
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gillicuddy
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gillicuddy is definitely a man for special releases. Remember his last ep "the repeating thoughts..." on Resting Bell, containing 2 - no! - 4, or better, 5 tracks? "music for moles" contains 10 tracks and this time no track repeats, I promise. The songs were mostly recorded during the "the repeating thoughts..." sessions and they are all beautiful folk-sketches in a pretty rough stage. And because of the raw outfit I'll also give you a pretty sketchy release...
Topics: gillicuddy, acoustic, folk, guitar
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Mar 28, 2008
03/08
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Regosphere
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Regosphere is Andrew Quitter, a really productive man from Portland, Oregon. He does harsh noise music with "Suburbia Melting" since 1998, is running the DumpsterScore Home Recordings label, and between all this, he finds time for his new project Regosphere with synth miniatures, dark ambient elements, field recordings and lo-fi noises. The three pieces on "The Coast By Train" have a duration from 8 to 15 minutes. The ride starts with "In Darkened Hills", an...
Topics: Regosphere, Ambient, Experimental
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Nov 15, 2008
11/08
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Glenn Ryszko
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Glenn Ryszko is a student at the academy of visual arts Maastricht. After having played several instruments in various musical groups, he decided to start a more experimental project on his own. Glenn creates sound by manipulating instrumentation and environmental recordings, using electric guitar, fieldrecordings and custom software. On "4.0 subtle distorted guitar drones" Glenn presents 4 superb minimal tracks based on distorted guitar tones. The sound shifts from very quiet...
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Topics: Glenn Ryszko, guitar, drone, ambient, experimental
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Oct 15, 2007
10/07
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throuRoof
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throuRoof, a one-man-project from italy, comes up with an impressive 32 minute ambient-drone-monument. The piece is an improvisation played with a broken Bontempi organ, guitar feedback and fieldrecordings, decomposed with analogic mixer, Dunlop Tape Delay, Echoplex and Revox. There was no Overdubbing, no Remastering, no digital process except the rip on wav directly from reel to reel tape. In throuRoof's own words: "throuRoof is like flowing throught the roof during the dreams, a...
Topics: throuRoof, Ambient, Experimental, Drone
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Jul 27, 2008
07/08
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David Molina
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Ghosts and Strings is the current project by composer/sound artist/multi-instrumentalist David Molina, also known as "Los Veneremos". Molina studied and performed classical guitar for almost 12 years until he discovered the art of recording and scoring music for theatre, dance, film. 12 more years went by and the rest was history. Unlike the output of his experimental, noise, ambient group Transient, "Canciones del Futuro" is an epic, harmonic, cinematic, guitar driven, 3...
Topics: Ghosts and Strings, Folk, Ambient, Electronica, Shoegaze
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Apr 29, 2011
04/11
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Collin Thomas
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Collin Thomas is an experimental musician, composer, and artist. He has composed numerous pieces including works for percussion, winds and many different chamber ensembles. As an experimental musician, Thomas has released over ten albums, many of which can be downloaded for free. April Triptych is a two hour long piece chronicling a typical suburban morning, afternoon, and night. Elements of three are two-fold: 1. three field recordings of a backyard in a housing complex layered and sequenced....
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Topics: Collin Thomas, April Triptych, Ambient, Field Recordings, Soundscape
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Jun 29, 2008
06/08
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Jordan Sauer
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Segue is Jordan Sauer from Vancouver, Canada. His sound is a patchwork of textures and tones with a focus on the interplay of timbre. These sounds are created through the blending of various instruments (12-string guitar, piano, violin, melodica, glockenspiel, various percussive instruments) and incidental found sounds. His recent release "a glass darkly" is an absolutly beautiful, meditative and touching piece of music. Haunting melodies, guitar- and piano-miniatures,...
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Topics: Segue, Jordan Sauer, Ambient, Experimental
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Sep 20, 2009
09/09
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The Cherry Blues Project
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The Cherry Blus Project, a two-people-project from argentina, was one of the first artists on Resting Bell. They are mainly known for more experimental music, field recordings, noise and improvisation. For their "new" release on Resting Bell they did something you wouldn't expect. They recorded a folk record. "The Psychiatric Years EP" is rescued material from TCBP, about 4-5 years old, compiled into two EPs. All the material is folk music. Songs with melodies and...
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Topics: The Cherry Blues Project, experimental, folk
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Feb 12, 2009
02/09
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jeremy bible
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With "lbrnm" Jeremy Bible presents his first solo work on Resting Bell. Jeremy is well-known for his project with Jason Henry, his experimedia imprint and for his graphic/photo/video work. "lbrnm" contains 3 reinterpretations of a koen park-piece titled "laburnum" originally released on the highly recommended "grey night clouds" release on experimedia. The original work sounds very clean, deep and calming. It is dominated by a own heartbeat, created with...
Topics: Jeremy Bible, Koen Park, Laburnum, Ambient, Experimental, Soundscape, Reinterpretation
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Apr 9, 2009
04/09
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terje paulsen
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terje paulsen is a sound-artist from Kristiansand, Norway, working with simple instruments and equipment, sometimes self made, sounds from found objects and fieldrecordings from his local enviroment. He likes the sounds to be hand made and does not use a laptop. "twenty feet for buddha" is a contemplative, subtle piece with a duration of about twenty minutes. terje made this track with some treated fieldrecordings and buddha-machines. It starts very quiet with some light drones,...
Topics: terje paulsen, ambient, experimental, soundscape
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Jun 1, 2012
06/12
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Saito Koji
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After a short break in May we start this month with another wonderful release by Saito Koji. Similar as his former RB-release "Guide" "Again" consists of eight tracks, each 3 minutes long. And also the music hits a similar tone. Droning, distorted and dense guitar tones are swirling around. Every piece contains a short melodic loop, presented in a very uncommon lenth. But the pieces are so compact and dense that you don’t need a 30-minute repeating loop. I strongly...
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Topics: Saito Koji, Music, Ambient, Drone
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Oct 7, 2012
10/12
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Rick Tarquinio
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After his wonderful release "Sending You Going" under the "The Accidental Psaltery"-moniker, "Waves" is Rick Tarquinio's second contribution to the Resting Bell-catalogue. This new EP contains two tracks with a complete duration of 25 minutes. The pieces for "Waves" contain minimal source material arranged accidentally. Wave 1, dedicated to John Cage, uses the sequence of notes in his last name played in different octaves and rhythms on the bowed...
Topics: Rick Tarquinio, Waves, Ambient, Soundscape
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Jan 15, 2009
01/09
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Mem1
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"Stationary Drift" by Mem1 (Mark and Laura Cetilia) is a calm and beautiful 4-track EP combining electronic sounds and cello to an organic musical symbiosis. This EP starts with "Hanging Valley", a easeful and meditative piece, with soft droning cello sounds and electronic glitches like footsteps in the snow. "Accretion" begins with a deep growling tone under a layer of light sound-textures, ending in a loud merging movement. You can hear dripping notes and...
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Topics: Mem1, ambient, experimental, improvisation, cello, soundscape
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Dec 22, 2009
12/09
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fallen
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Fallen are brothers Andrew and Richard Fryer who come from the south of England. The group was formed in 1999 making spooky neurotic jungle. Over the course of nine releases they have gradually evolved into a more meditative proposition and are now purveyors of a sort of outsider dreampop. Fallen’s last recording, “A rare camouflage” is available on the cookanegg imprint. Andrew is also the man behind Boy swung tunnel whose album “The sun sparks” is on the Format noise label. Their EP...
Topics: fallen, feathers, ambient, dream pop, electronica
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Oct 3, 2009
10/09
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Sergey Suokas
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You might remember slow by his "room phive"-release on Resting Bell last December, or for the "Love"-EP on Autoplate. If not, slow is the moniker of Sergey Suokas, a russian composer in the fields of techno (as Suokas) and soulful and hypnotic ambient-music (as slow). His new release "dual box" can be seen as a meditation on the "Flower of Life". This geometrical figure is a composition of multiple evenly-spaced, overlapping circles, that are arranged so...
Topics: slow, Sergey Suokas, Ambient, Electronica
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Jan 25, 2013
01/13
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Leif Folkvord
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Do you remember lefolk's last RB-contribution "weather to shore" back in May 2011? So now he is back with a new, wonderful 8-track-album called "isn't this dangerous?". lefolk is audio/video artist Leif Folkvord of Ann Arbor, Michigan USA. He has released his album "intermitter" on NKR. His self-released material is available via audio.lefolk.com. "isn't this dangerous?" is deep and moving 48-minute journey. A fading structure and slight beats in the...
Topics: lefolk, ambient, soundscape
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Sep 9, 2011
09/11
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Shinobu Nemoto
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Resting Bell celebrates the 100th release with a small release-series, consisting of 4 parts. Part 1 is a contribution of Shinobu Nemoto, well-known sound-artist from Kanagawa, Japan. He runs his own label "MOUFU-ROKUON", releases his work also as "Summons of Shining Ruins" or "Dark Side of The Audio System" and collaborates with several artists like Brian Grainger, VCV, Jason Adams and Danielle Demos. His new work "Tetsuo" is a glimmering 58-minute opus,...
Topics: Shinobu Nemoto, Tetsuo, ambient, experimental
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Jun 21, 2010
06/10
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Edu Comelles
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After his "Nordic Recordings" and "Southern Recordings" Edu Comelles aka Mensa returns to Resting Bell with a new two-track-EP. Besides his work as composer and sound designer Edu also runs the fantastic Audiotalaia-netlabel. Both tracks on "Braid Heritage" are alternate (extended) versions of compositions originally released on the album "Moorland" via Test Tube. The work is strongly related to Edu’s recent sound project "Walking...
Topics: Mensa, Braid Heritage, Experimental, Ambient, Soundscapes, Walking Composition
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Sep 7, 2007
09/07
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Adrian Juarez
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Adrian Juarez was born in La Plata (Buenos Aires, Argentina). He studied piano for seven years and then he got close to other musical instuments in an intuitive way. Besides his role as an artist he's in charge of Frigida Records netlabel where he edits music by artists from all over the world. In his large output he comes near a long genre list, but on the two "Caleta"-Volumes he celebrates 4 calm, tranquil ambient tunes. Slightly vibrating soundscapes and soft drones guide the...
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Topics: Adrian Juarez, ambient, minimal
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Dec 14, 2007
12/07
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Graveline / Panneton
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Zero a m m 0 is a Montreal duo formed by composers and multi-instrumentists Mathieu Graveline and Benoit Panneton, oscillating between modern, contemporary, modal, minimalist, ambient and electronic music. The three pieces on their release "Temporary Shades Of Gray" are beautiful miniatures, labyrinthine paths you can follow. From darkness to light, from desperation to hope. The first two tracks are very calm and quiet. Little melodie-fragments are floating around, very light and not...
Topics: Zero a m m 0, experimental, minimal, ambient, electroacoustic
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Oct 16, 2011
10/11
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Oskar Hallbert
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Resting Bell celebrates the 100th release with a small release-series, consisting of 4 parts. The third part is done by Oskar Hallbert. He is a Swedish composer who makes minimal music. Tranquil melodies, documentary field recordings and the warm hiss you get from old microphones, casette tapes and an out of date mp3-player. Oskar's new release is called "Promenader & Utflykter". It is thought as a double CD, all in all with 24 tracks and a playtime of about 42 minutes. Oskar...
Topics: Oskar Hallbert, Promenader, Utflykter, folk, lo-fi, minimal, ambient
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Nov 4, 2012
11/12
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Collin Thomas
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Collin Thomas is back on Resting Bell with another wonderful piece of music. You might remember his first Resting Bell-contribution, the enormous 2 hour-piece "April Triptych", released in April 2011. Or one his other releases on labels like Impulsive Habitat, escala, Public Spaces Lab or Pocket Fields. Collin’s new RB-release "Score to a Quotidian Experience" is again a single track with a duration of 67 minutes. Quiet, Slow, and Distant, this piece is intended as an...
Topics: Collin Thomas, Score to a Quotidian Experience, Ambient, Soundscape
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May 4, 2008
05/08
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Etienne Michelet
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Etienne Michelet is a young composer and musician from France. After his self-released works "Bleu Vespéral" and "Le Piano à Coudre (The Sewing-Piano)", this is the first release of his ongoing "Calendaires"-project, which moves in the fields of minimal, ambient, experimental music and classical music. This "Calendaires"-release contains two parts, both together over 50 minutes long. Part one begins in a very dark context. Deep, growling bass sounds...
Topics: Etienne Michelet, ambient, minimal, experimental, classical
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Mar 28, 2012
03/12
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v4w.enko & d'incise
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"27.08.2011" is a live recording done by two great artists v4w.enko & d'incise. The release consists of two tracks, 20 and 35 minute long, recorded on August 27th, 2011 at Tivoli 16, Geneva. The basis of this work is made with v4w.enko’s algorithmic forms which are confronted to concret gestures by d'incise. The result is a sublime piece of improvisational work, combining deep drones and soundscapes with live treatments of various objects & contact mics. v4w.enko is a...
Topics: v4w.enko, d'incise, ambient, electroacoustic, experimental
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Sep 28, 2011
09/11
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Appalachian Falls
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Resting Bell celebrates the 100th release with a small release-series, consisting of 4 parts. The fourth part is done by Appalachian Falls. "GrimGrimAntonym" is a 30 minute-work consisting of two live sessions with an array of distortion pedals and tape machines. Both works are full of haunted tones and distorted fragments. A massive wall of sound crackling in your ears and melting your brain, evolving to smoother soundscapes which are transformed back into a vulcanic blow out. My...
Topics: Appalachian Falls, GrimGrimAntonym, Ambient, Drone
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May 28, 2008
05/08
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Simultan
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Simultan is the project of sound artist and graphic designer Cristiano Rinaldi. His release "Ich bin bei dir" (german for "I'm with you") is a tribute and dedication to Etty Hillesum, a jewish writer from the netherlands, who was murdered 1943 after nazi-deportation in Auschwitz-Birkenau. The 4 pieces are touching, moving and very deep. A great combination of wide and open synth patterns, glitchy elements in the background and warming melodies. Beginning with some more harsh...
Topics: Simultan, Ambient, Minimal, Experimental
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Jul 16, 2009
07/09
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jmdkm
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Since 1994 jmdkm has been active in the arts, particularly in painting, photography and sound. He has been in a self-centered experimenting mode which has possibly gone into a naive approach. "Start Here" contains 9 tracks on a scale from playful to noisy and it is all about trying to find out where it aches or not, trying to feel where it hurts so good. Taking an electro-acoustic path, with nothing but a dorky drum kit, 2 cheesy toy keyboards and some stomp boxes. In a way the sounds...
Topics: jmdkm, Start Here, Ambient, Electronica
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Jun 12, 2008
06/08
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Calarco / Juarez
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Two great artists from Argentinia teamed up for a massive 14-minute sound piece: Juan Jose Calarco and Adrian Juarez. Both artists are wellknown from many releases on multiple Net- and CDr-labels all around the globe. "Tierra Abierta" is a subtle composition. The essential groundwork on this release, holding everything together, are fieldrecordings. You can hear many natural sound like rain, creaky woods, whistling winds and rustling leaves. This earth-bound ambience is arranged...
Topics: Juan Jose Calarco, Adrian Juarez, Ambient, Experimental, Fieldrecordings
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Jul 13, 2008
07/08
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ryonkt
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After the release of "the world that was surrounded..."and works for Dog Eared Netlabel, Noise Joy, Mandorla and audiotalaia , Ryonkt comes up with the majestic 17-minute track "gray sky". Compared to the melody-driven, minimal-folk orientated "the world that was surrounded..."-release, "gray sky" is a dense and very continuous ambient-drone work. A warm and thick sound-planket, consisting of minimal tone-variations and shiftings, surrounds you and flows...
Topics: ryonkt, ambient, drone
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Nov 15, 2007
11/07
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Jason Corder
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What an enormous output this year by Jason Corder aka offthesky. He has given us two great releases on term and autoplate. Now he returns with a 4-track-EP on Resting Bell. Musically related to the "Du Soleil ep" on atmoworks, "rare decay" presents four careful though stunning pieces. The entire release from beginning to end is a perfect compliment to lying down and watching the clouds lilt by. Or like listlessly gazing on a silent snow fall. It is a fitting soundtrack to...
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Topics: offthesky, off the sky, ambient
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Mar 13, 2009
03/09
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Sparke / Illidge
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You might remember Gardens From Light from their massive Resting Bell-double-feature "Birds Of Joy And Sorrow", released in October 2007. This time Steven and Ian offer a single 16-minute track entitled "Sun Chariot". It's a very dense and deep track, and compared to "Birds Of Joy And Sorrow" it's more athmospheric and more complex. There is a continous drone throught this piece, layered with percussive elements, sublime field-recordings, haunted vocals, little...
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Topics: Gardens From Light, Ambient, Drone
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Jan 21, 2011
01/11
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Lucas Page
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Lucas Page (a.k.a. moji moji) is a musician/sound designer born in Buenos Aires, Argentina. His first EP album is entitled "Detroit de le Maire" and was released by Hipidukimuzik net label. Detroit de le Maire comprises 4 tracks inspired by the Lemaire strait, (which runs between Tierra del Fuego and Isla de los Estados). For his second album, "N", moji moji travels to the argentinean northwest and draws inspiration from the immensity of its breathtaking landscapes. The...
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Topics: moji moji, postrock, instrumental
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